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From: christopher@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Pole Balancing Problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.132031.70@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 19:20:31 GMT
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
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Hmmmmm....  can't help you right off with the equations, but if you can get
at a NeXT computer, there is a neural network simulation on it called
Balancer.  It simulates a seal learning to balance a pole on its nose,
illustrating unsupervised learning in a pain of hidden layered neural nets.
The specifics come from the 1986 dissertation of Charles Anderson at the
University of Massachusetts ("Learning and Problem Solving With Multilayer
Connectionist Systems").  The demo, however doesn't go into a lot of detail
on the implementation, but is fun to watch.

Assuming you can get at a NeXT, the program is located in the 
/NextDeveloper/Demos directory.


Christopher Kane
kane@nic.gac.edu
Gustavus Adolphus College     St. Peter, Minnesota